Mercury -Bruce Lyon

upheaval and collapse. There will certainly be difficult times as the system adjusts, but on the whole it has been a rather extraordinary success through using the underlying motivating energies within the system itself to transform it.

Just as the mind can be used to get out of the mind, so the financial markets can be used to break the hold of the financial markets. Initiates have been working in this field for some time, and have been able to be phenomenally successful because of the very forces of fear and greed that sweep the marketplace. These forces allow those who are unaffected by them to accumulate vast wealth over the medium term. The great irony is that the freeing up of the financial markets, orchestrated by those who are seeking to extend their control and influence, has actually resulted in the liberation of vast sums of money from their control.

Mercury is the god of trickery and finance, and Mercury it is who has managed to spirit away this source of energy like quicksilver.

The work of those who have been involved in this Hierarchical project (which has involved disciples with a great understanding of cycles and a developed intuition— qualities required equally by esotericists) is now to secure these funds and to build an economic base and system which is able to operate freely behind the scenes with as little interaction with the current financial system as possible. Just as the School has been able to be established in a somewhat remote area in a small country, so the new emerging financial base must be somewhat quarantined from what has become in reality a global economy. This new ‘pool’ must be kept safely isolated while the global system undergoes its reorientation. A period of consolidation lies ahead which will correspond with a period of uncertainty and confusion in the world financial system. I might tell 27